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Sorry Knotty, but I fear that I might run into a few copyright issues if I put stuff on the web - getting releases for all the images could take months and cost more than I'm ready to part with!

After next year's exhibition I shall look into a Newbury in the Great War book - if I can persuade someone to sponsor the image rights!

Thans for your good wishes (the first run of the talk went well), I was not surprised when the local MP turned up for the official opening, but was surprised that he stayed for the talk (we leave a gap to allow those there out of duty rather than interest to escape). It was an even bigger surprise the next day when he turned up for a good look at the exhibition.

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Andrew Upton

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Location:Near Bristol

Interests:Collecting the uniforms, arms, accoutrements and medals primarily of the Commonwealth countries from WW1, as well as being a member of the Great War living history group The Vickers Machine Gunners Society 1914-45. Looking for anything militarily related to the names of COSST, DENSLEY, DUREPAIRE, SHOPLAND and UPTON.

In a couple of cases of memorabilia there was one object that particularly interested me as an environmental volunteer who uses various handtools - a sapper's trench saw like this. I would have loved to have a go at using it!

They are not that rare, and were used for a long time, so can be picked up on Ebay fairly cheaply, eg:

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It was good to meet you Moonraker - good of you to make the trip to Newbury. The saw has generated a lot of interest - especially on the opening day before I sorted out the labels. Everyone seemed to be looking at it as some sort of fiendish garrotte!

And mega thanks to Wardog for lending us items from his collection, each year he responds valiantly to my pleadings for items related to the year we are concentrating on.

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Your quite correct Andrew-the saw is a common "ish" item. The one on display was bought at a Slough car boot in the late '90s for £7. Case Canadian made 1916- saw 1917. I'm missing the file- not sure if any small 3 sided file would do or if the issue one would have had markings or anything different about it. Regards, Paul.

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Interests:Collecting the uniforms, arms, accoutrements and medals primarily of the Commonwealth countries from WW1, as well as being a member of the Great War living history group The Vickers Machine Gunners Society 1914-45. Looking for anything militarily related to the names of COSST, DENSLEY, DUREPAIRE, SHOPLAND and UPTON.

Your quite correct Andrew-the saw is a common "ish" item. The one on display was bought at a Slough car boot in the late '90s for £7. Case Canadian made 1916- saw 1917. I'm missing the file- not sure if any small 3 sided file would do or if the issue one would have had markings or anything different about it. Regards, Paul.

I have one myself Paul - think mine was about £15 on Ebay years ago. WW2 leather case and missing the file as usual :-)

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Phil Wood

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We had just under 900 visitors many of whom were very kind in their comments - its interesting to read comments on feedback forms, but, after researching 300 men from the Newbury memorial, I did pale a little at the desire of one visitor to see the stories of the men from all the surrounding villages as well!